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Building a Virtual Journey of Wealth Preservation

Artificial Intelligence and Fintech: X8 Currency

We’ve always aimed to build products that improve investment opportunities for as many people as possible. For example, few months back we introduced the first Sharia compliant blockchain Protocol which allowed users to experience the movement of money quickly, reliably, and at almost no cost. Since then everyone from blockchain lovers and cryptocurrencies issuers, to digital exchanges have been approaching us seeking Sharia compliance — often for the very first time.

One such entity inspiring to illuminate the world of ‘value preservation’ is Switzerland based X8 Currency. Their portfolio is driven by financial Artificial Intelligence (AI) which provides people with an easy Token artifact for their investments. Powered by advanced applications the portfolio works on a 100% asset backed reserves of eight major fiat currencies like US Dollar, Japanese Yen, Canadian Dollar and gold coins. What we admire about X8 is that it has been built in direct response to conversations with Asset Managers seeking to preserve value and create price stability, as well as automated reserves and visibility metrics. Keep your eyes peeled as we help roll out the Sharia compliant version of X8 with creative, secure and stable experiences.

From initial coin offerings to finishing protocols, we help your products stay true to the pulse of your design. By staying focused on the needs, demands and wishes of the people and institutions for whom you’re developing the products.

We remain excited in inspiring the financial world and shaping new futures with Islamic products build for everyone!

Tokenizing the Heritage of Luxury Real-Estate Investments

Digital Assets: EIT Investments

The history of real-estate investments is global. But until recently, the act of tokenizing these investments into digital assets has been limited in scale. But with EIT Investments, it’s soon going to be just a few clicks away. Today, they received the Sharia Certification for their luxury hotel real-estate program and they are now developing the Tokenization of their first 20 investments in hotels so that you can buy their digital artifacts no matter where you are.

EIT’s block-chain technology will allow you to digitally securitize your investments in the famous suites and grand rooms of luxury hotel real-estates from Palazzo Versace Dubai, to Park Plaza Hotel in Westminster to The Dolder Grand in Switzerland.. From asset backed sales to secured rental yields, we expect, EIT’s Tokens to help reach new investors and inspire them with digital assets. And the possibilities will keep expanding with the addition of newer exchanges which allow the sale of such Tokens on secondary e-markets.

Digitalized Tokens will never replace the real thing. But block-chain technology will open up new application of investments to everyone, and to offer such opportunities in a Sharia compliant manner, we think is a powerful thing. We hope you get a chance to explore the diverse heritage of hotel investment in Sharia compliant Tokenized way!

The Invisible Revolution

Device Repair Warranty: Commit Device Protection Holdings

Whether it’s repairing the screen of your mobile phone, replacing hunks of metal, or re-aligning its wires, millions of requests under repair warranty are made every day. But few people think about how the repair logistic agreements actually works. Because these contracts typically aren’t much to look at, people usually don’t learn about the incredible arrangements which make so much of modern day mobile devices repair possible.

To begin to change that, we signed up with CDP Holdings with a Sharia Advisory partnership to understand a bit of the magic from the inside of their warranty plans to the outside. So today, after having reviewed there protection program and processes, we’re certifying their plan, a different kind of Sharia compliant warranty with a new way of protection. Instead of insurance like connections, CDP will give you service based protection that’s fast, safe, and reliable.

We’re really excited to see how this plan can help reinvent repair warranties for smartphone brands and take the frustration out of repair and warranty together.

Here’s to CDP for bringing speed, security and Sharia compliance in the warranty you want, without the frustrations you don’t.

Connecting Banks, Payment Systems and People

Blockchain Protocol: Stellar Network

As a Sharia Advisor, it’s always humbling when you encounter a perfect investment opportunity. Shari’a compliant design attract our attention with its simplicity, is universally understood by investors, and does not sacrifice returns with large agency fees.

Today, Stellar gave us one such perfect piece – through its platform that connects banks, payments systems, and people. With a distributed network of global servers Stellar allows the movement of money quickly, reliably, and at almost no cost. It helps you create and design a new set of business environment through a specialized native asset known as Lumen. For example, Lumen can help your investment navigate from one side of the country to the other, transfer units with investors instantaneously, or even offer incremental payment options to customers. The best part is that you don’t have to pay huge sums to manage your accounts. You can visit the Sharia guidelines we designed for Stellar here.

We expect Stellar to become an international obsession in the Islamic financial markets. All in all, we built our Shari’a Advisory platform to help make such amazing experiences possible in the Islamic industry, but the investments that you can build on Stellar is what will truly make Sharia compliance come alive.

Imagine, explore and re-invent your future saving plans

Takaful Company: T’azur

The future of savings may well lie in people creating, imagining and exploring their own opportunities with Islamic finance—and perhaps most important of all, having fun while making their plans! Over the years, we’ve worked closely with institutions to build programs through mutual funds, ETF’s, and even vertical farming with a very friendly touch. Today, we’re unveiling our latest engagement—one that gives voice to your retirement plans and transforms savings into the future. It’s called t’azur.

With t’azur, individuals and corporate firms can narrate their own savings and retirement adventures, make legacy pots, and build protection benefits. Their Takaful policies are like an investment engine but with enormous wealth of knowledge, expertise and a research lab of financial investments to help inspire your savings and protection. Our objective is to create a Shari’a Supervisory Board and manage their policy structuring, and Shari’a supervisory functions.

Whether you dream of leaving a professional legacy for your family, a private saver, or just want to explore the boundaries of Islamic financial protection. We hope t’azur will empower you to imagine, explore and re-invent your future. We’re delighted to be at the heart of this opportunity and look forward to working together with them to increase innovation in the Islamic insurance industry and shape its future.

Designing instruments as catalysts of growth and stability

For the last ten years, financial institutions in Saudi Arabia have been looking out for better Islamic refinancing opportunities in the Kingdom’s housing sector.

Today, opportunities to access liquidity and enhance balance sheet capacity got a little bit closer. Team SRC*, a team made of financial engineers, international consultants and lawyers, are working with us to secure Sharia compliant instruments for refinancing their mortgage portfolios. In one of the instruments we’ve designed jointly, SRC will hitch the portfolio of real-estate contracts using specially designed agreements for offloading existing portfolios; once the originator is released from ownership and associated risks a price will be paid to him for the asset, SRC will then retain the originator to navigate the servicing contracts with the lessees for a separate fee.

By freeing up the balance sheets of financial institutions, the newly designed Islamic refinancing instruments are expected to engage as catalysts of growth and stability for Islamic banks, mortgage finance companies and real-estate originators in the Kingdom – and by extension to the rest of the region.

So, congratulations to SRC for reaching this stage, and best of luck for the years to come!

Next Generation of Sharia Audit Solutions

Banks: Eskan Bank

As a financial institute, you juggle different functions throughout the day—a Sharia reviewer for internal examination, a shared officer for coordination and secretarial work, and an intelligent Sharia Auditor for supervising records. In an inspiring trend, we’ve begun to replace the need for those various functions to be managed internally—what you manage with different departments can now be done at a single platform. Through our services, we try to help these possibilities come to life.

Today our services are used for by financial institutions who collectively manage millions worth of assets under management. One such pioneer is Eskan Bank for whom these are services of choice because of their superfast review, extreme responsiveness and low Sharia Audit cost – and as part of the new generation requirements they are designed to adapt to the many ways Eskan performs, develops and grows in the Kingdom.

We believe in the power of outsourcing to help banks like Eskan focus on their business priorities and do what they do best in the way they find most effective. And we’ll continue to work with financial institutions to help support the important work they do every day.

Opportunities that keep flowing

Investment Company: Old Mutual

The best Sharia compliant investments are meant to just flow: you barely have to understand the structure, follow-up with anyone on the returns and get expert advice on the nature of risks involved. This is how the people behind OM African Agriculture Fund want to help investors stay in the moment, no matter what asset class they’re looking for or how they’re measuring Sharia risks. They’ve been hard at work on making this investment strategy faster, simpler, and easier for Islamic Investors.

We’ve been obsessively at work with their business team to make their Fund Sharia compliant and more reliable in its Islamic financial modality. And today, we’re releasing their Sharia Certificate, with a fresh new approach and features that make it even easier for Sharia compliant investor to understand the mechanism.

We hope you enjoy the new opportunity. And we look forward to keeping such investments flowing!

Introducing the New World of P2P Financing

Peer to Peer Lending: Beehive Group

It’s hard to think of a more important secondary source of capital in the world than the recent developments in Peer to Peer financing. At its best, the P2P is communicating power to the people, connecting businesses to societies, and allowing enterprises to create informed financial decisions. In the past decade, better technology and an open financial landscape has led to a revolution in how financing transactions are created, invested, and distributed. And given our mission to make Sharia Advisory services accessible and useful everywhere, we want to help ensure that this innovation leads and benefits the world of Islamic finance.

That’s why we’re working with Beehive P2P Ltd, in their new effort as a regulated entity at DFSA (Dubai Financial Service Authority) to empower financial innovation at the intersection of Sharia compliance and technology. We’re tackling this in three ways: by setting up a dedicated Sharia Board comprising of 3 scholars to meet DFSA’s regulatory requirements; by providing helpful Sharia review analysis in the hands of Beehive’s product development team; and through periodical Sharia Audits designed to ensure implementation of Sharia guidelines on some of the biggest opportunities that exist for Beehive’s Islamic Platform today.

We have worked with Beehive’s brilliant technology and platform that is spectacularly empowering the world of Islamic investment and businesses. We see their work as a global effort, with demand for their services in the GCC, Asia, Europe and beyond.

As the financing landscape continues to evolve, we believe we can create a more informed world of enterprises if technologists and financial institutes work together—and we at SRB are excited to be part of the effort.

Bringing new businesses to life

Every journey we take with our clients is unique. The products, services and business lines we certify and oversee tells us a great deal about who our clients are and what they care about.

One such inspiring client is BOK International who has recently outsourced its Sharia Advisory Committee to us. The Bank takes pride of 100 years of service to the people of Sudan with offices in 3 countries around the world. In a series of fascinating product reviews and investment certifications, we’re learning more about the origins of Islamic Financial movement in the country. We’re also beginning to see how they are customizing business lines in Bahrain to revitalize your Islamic banking experience. With trending insights in the world of wholesale banking BOKI is seeking to gain traction across the Kingdom, getting deeper into capabilities you truly care about and services that bring news businesses to life.

No matter what your business is, we hope you’ll explore the growing trend of outsourced Shari’a Advisory services and help shape the future of the field.